Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gritty; sandy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sandy; gritty; acervulous: specifically applied— in anatomy to the acervulus cerebri, or gritty substance of the pineal body of the brain; in medicine to gritty sediment or deposit in urine. Also sabulose, sabuline.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sandy; gritty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Sandy orgritty .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin sabulōsus, from sabulum, coarse sand.]
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From Latin sabulosus, from sabulum ‘sand’.
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Examples
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We got up at six to get the bird into the oven, so it can be totally desiccated, friable, granular, sabulous, arenaceous, the way turkey always is.
A vlog about Thanksgiving squirrel, Mancow, guns, law school, commenters, and Madison versus New York. Ann Althouse 2007
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Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.).
fbharjo commented on the word sabulous
sabulous true grit
January 16, 2007
qms commented on the word sabulous
For tender feet rarely unshod
Sharp shingle's an unpleasant plod,
But beaches more sabulous
Are likely to jab you less
And need not be so gingerly trod.
March 6, 2016